If you resist the currents of change you run the risk of drowning in them. Here in Suzhou if you stand still long enough someone will build something around you. A new office building, a new apartment complex, a metro line or even a giant pair of Trousers...now they are getting shoes!!!
Yes thinking about change and being part of an organisation where change has to be managed and delivered effectively is something that can be difficult. Management theory tells us there there are both drivers of change and resistors to change-id like to think that I'm a driver of change-well here in Suzhou everyone seems to be a driver of some description or another and i can be pretty zippy on my EBike!!
While i can sympathise with the french philosopher who once thought that "The more things change the more they stay the same" i feel he didn't visit a country like China.
Being part of a developing country is amazing when you remember back to all the meetings-discussions-and years that would normally pass before change occurred in my home country-we used to talk about change eventually happening-or that it would happen at a glacial pace...was maddening at times.
But here if you turn around something new will be built-some new idea created-dreamed up-come to life. It doesn't matter how unusual the shape of the building-how many levels it has or which direction it has to face-lets just get in there and build it. then once built lets ask people to join in and build their own sections of life and work within what we have created.
Perhaps thats how we need to view change-our part in it is one small part of contributing to someone else's part which leads to an even bigger part and and even more monumental change.
Let's see where this new change takes us-this new building-new year-new-newness
Yes thinking about change and being part of an organisation where change has to be managed and delivered effectively is something that can be difficult. Management theory tells us there there are both drivers of change and resistors to change-id like to think that I'm a driver of change-well here in Suzhou everyone seems to be a driver of some description or another and i can be pretty zippy on my EBike!!
While i can sympathise with the french philosopher who once thought that "The more things change the more they stay the same" i feel he didn't visit a country like China.
Being part of a developing country is amazing when you remember back to all the meetings-discussions-and years that would normally pass before change occurred in my home country-we used to talk about change eventually happening-or that it would happen at a glacial pace...was maddening at times.
But here if you turn around something new will be built-some new idea created-dreamed up-come to life. It doesn't matter how unusual the shape of the building-how many levels it has or which direction it has to face-lets just get in there and build it. then once built lets ask people to join in and build their own sections of life and work within what we have created.
Perhaps thats how we need to view change-our part in it is one small part of contributing to someone else's part which leads to an even bigger part and and even more monumental change.
Let's see where this new change takes us-this new building-new year-new-newness